C# Programming Help

[AlTech]

Hi all,

 

I've got 2 problems.

 

 

1. I have a program and I want it to print the contents to a HTML page or a PDF (no clue how to do this)

 

2. The program must be able to create a Tab automatically if a shortcut combination is pressed.

 

 

Thanks!

 

Also, anyone know of  any C# GUI/UI Libraries?

[trag1c]

Microsoft winforms. Microsoft WPF.

[Nuluvius]

Microsoft winforms. Microsoft WPF.

WPF over WinForms as it's a deprecating technology these days.

Look up MVVM and maybe think about using something like MVVMLight to help.

This sounds like homework/an assignment, is that what this is?

[trag1c]

WPF over WinForms as it's a deprecating technology these days.

Good to know.

[AlTech]

WPF over WinForms as it's a deprecating technology these days.

Look up MVVM and maybe think about using something like MVVMLight to help.

This sounds like homework/an assignment, is that what this is?

Windows Forms is deprecating? How similar is WPF to Windows Forms?

 

This is not a homework assignment. And BTW nobody answered the questions.

[AlTech]

I just tried WPF and i think I'll stick to Windows Forms until WPF becomes user friendly.

[Nuluvius]

I just tried WPF and i think I'll stick to Windows Forms until WPF becomes user friendly.

 

I don't quite understand what you mean by user friendly. But WinForms is hardly ever used for greenfield projects anymore.

 

Windows Forms is deprecating? How similar is WPF to Windows Forms?

 

Yes it is and WPF is the successor. WPF is mature and has been in use for years now. In regards to similarity, everything is fundamentally the same however WPF offers significant improvements for software design. As I already suggested, take a look at the MVVM design pattern. It's all about separation of View (UI) from ViewModel (where the business logic/orchestration is) from Model (data/computational model). None of the layers 'know' anything about each other and interaction/communication between them is carried out via the use of various abstraction mechanisms; the ultimate intention being enforcement of good software design principles.

 

This is not a homework assignment.

 

Good to know, far too many people come here expecting to be spoon fed. 

 

This is not a homework assignment. And BTW nobody answered the questions.

 

I have a gif for responding to such statements of the obvious, it's taken all my self control not to employ its use in this case 

 

1. I have a program and I want it to print the contents to a HTML page or a PDF (no clue how to do this)

 

I would suggest you go look for a library for the latter, I found pages of them from a Google search. For the former you have some inbuilt stuff like this but I suspect there are going to be plenty of libraries once again. To be honest it shouldn't be harder than string parsing/escaping really.

 

2. The program must be able to create a Tab automatically if a shortcut combination is pressed.

 

A Tab... in what context?

[TAtari]

Hi all,

 

I've got 2 problems.

 

 

1. I have a program and I want it to print the contents to a HTML page or a PDF (no clue how to do this)

 

2. The program must be able to create a Tab automatically if a shortcut combination is pressed.

 

 

1. What is the content or do you just want to print what ever is on the window similar to screen shot?

 

2. A tab of what? Either way you want to listen for keypresses on the main window object and if the correct keypress is done make the TabControler of your choosing add a tab

[AlTech]

1. What is the content or do you just want to print what ever is on the window similar to screen shot?

 

2. A tab of what? Either way you want to listen for keypresses on the main window object and if the correct keypress is done make the TabControler of your choosing add a tab

1. I want to turn whatever is in the tab control page to a PDF

 

2. A tab using the tab control mechanism, I know how to implement the shortcut but I want to clone the first tab (don't ask why!)

 

So basically a user presses A shortcut combination key (e.g Control + Shift + E)  (I know how to do this bit)  and a similar or identical tab is created next to it. (don't know how to do this bit).

Sorry for not being too specific

[AlTech]

 

 

 

I don't quite understand what you mean by user friendly. But WinForms is hardly ever used for greenfield projects anymore.

 

 

Yes it is and WPF is the successor. WPF is mature and has been in use for years now. In regards to similarity, everything is fundamentally the same however WPF offers significant improvements for software design. As I already suggested, take a look at the MVVM design pattern. It's all about separation of View (UI) from ViewModel (where the business logic/orchestration is) from Model (data/computational model). None of the layers 'know' anything about each other and interaction/communication between them is carried out via the use of various abstraction mechanisms; the ultimate intention being enforcement of good software design principles.

 

 

Good to know, far too many people come here expecting to be spoon fed. 

 

 

 

I have a gif for responding to such statements of the obvious, it's taken all my self control not to employ its use in this case 

 

 

 

I would suggest you go look for a library for the latter, I found pages of them from a Google search. For the former you have some inbuilt stuff like this but I suspect there are going to be plenty of libraries once again. To be honest it shouldn't be harder than string parsing/escaping really.

 

 

A Tab... in what context?

 

A tab using TAB CONTROL. AND i've never done string parsing so that might be a bit hard (edit: If i did then I didn't know that i did it)

[Nater]

Wait so you want to turn something in lets say a richtextbox that is within a tabcontrol page into a pdf file?

 

Or do you want to print the whole thing to the pdf? like if there's a button you want that printed as well?

 

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[Nuluvius]

A tab using TAB CONTROL. AND i've never done string parsing so that might be a bit hard (edit: If i did then I didn't know that i did it)

 

Well look at the class documentation for the specific control then. If it's WPF you'd do this with ViewModels, Bindings and a ViewModelLocator. String parsing... well that's just processing your output data; such as adding tags to a string or removing invalid crap and escaping things like spaces and other special characters. There's no real science behind it and it's specific to your own implementation detail.